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Historical Event on 8/14/1987
A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister Gandhi with his rifle butt at Sri Lanka.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1919 | Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born. |
| 12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
| 9/19/1997 | India wins the Sahara Cup by winning the third match too. |
| 2/19/1911 | Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India. |
| 10/24/1966 | Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam. |
| 3/16/1912 | Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system. |
| 8/5/1965 | M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born. |
| 10/21/1858 | Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, great social reformer, was born. |
| 7/21/1906 | W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away. |
| 9/24/1994 | At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat. |
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